VISUAL - one of Ireland’s leading contemporary art spaces.

VISUAL is one of Ireland’s leading contemporary art spaces situated in the heart of Carlow Town, with four world class gallery spaces and a 320-seat performance space.
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Our Mission
We enrich, inspire and improve the everyday through art

Our Vision
An international hub for realising the value of contemporary arts practice

Our Values
Inclusion
Excellence
Creativity
Collaboration
Ethics

Our programming is informed by the following tenets:

• We are rooted locally but retain a national and international focus
• We passionately believe that the arts have a vital role to play in cultural, social and economic development, and that access to meaningful engagement with the arts fosters the development of self-esteem, well-being, self-expression, social inclusion, creativity and enterprise, both in individuals and in societies.
• We are committed to providing meaningful access to and advocacy for, contemporary artistic practice of the highest quality through our programming, events and activities. In addition, we are committed to developing the sustainability of artistic practice both locally and nationally though the ways in which we work and programme.
• We are committed to identifying and removing physical, social and economic barriers to accessing our work and to support, foster and provide opportunities for arts participation in our communities.

Visit the Website: www.visualcarlow.ie

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